Quotes & anectdotes from
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technology

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.